Indirect Purchaser Is Not 'Proper Party' To Bring Antitrust Claim, Judge Rules

CHICAGO - A putative class of indirect purchasers has Article III standing to pursue its state law claims but not antitrust standing to assert that two of the largest domestic producers of plasma-derivative protein therapies and a trade association conspired to create shortages of the products in violation of federal antitrust law, a federal judge in Illinois ruled Jan. 9 (In re: Plasma-Derivative Protein Therapies Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2109, No. 09 C 7666, N.D. Ill.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2501; See February 2011). Full story on lexis.com